COVID and kids: Long-term effects, long COVID study seeks answers
Generally, COVID doesn't impact kids as bad as adults but some experience 'long COVID' or get re-infected, while others have experienced other bizarre outcomes.
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Generally, COVID doesn't impact kids as bad as adults but some experience 'long COVID' or get re-infected, while others have experienced other bizarre outcomes.
WASHINGTON — Eight-year-old Brooklynn Chiles fidgets on the hospital bed as she waits for the nurse at Children’s National Hospital. The white paper beneath her crinkles as she shifts to look at the medical objects in the room. She’s had the coronavirus three times, and no one can figure out why.
The National Institutes of Health are studying the long-term effects of COVID-19 on children, including repeat infections.
Generally, COVID doesn't impact kids as bad as adults but some experience 'long COVID' or get re-infected, while others have experienced other bizarre outcomes.
Among the puzzling outcomes of the coronavirus are the symptoms suffered by children.